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I am glad this discussion is being brought to the fore. In my experience, far too many managers are clueless about what engineering actually means. They see it like warehouses or f…

> I'm confused by your comment. How did you decide this was something worthy of fixing if it "doesn't show any good metrics"? If you can't quantify the issue in any manner, how do …

> I feel like you're stating this as "Look how silly KPIs are!", but your CEO is correct. The issue isn't the KPIs; it's the team members who are willing to intentionally game a sy…

What about things like "Stuck on XYZ because no one fixes it because it doesn't show any good metrics and management doesn't care about it. So I fixed it at the expense of my own t…

Leaving this not-so-humorous-post https://medium.com/@NTDF9/if-soccer-managers-did-performance... Full disclosure, it is my own rant about performance management.

> Anything surgical is typically billed against a dozen or more CPT codes for a single procedure and often involves more than one provider. This is the real startup gap. There are …

I have seen managers who were very effective at their work. But they actually understood the software in depth and were very skilled at shielding the team from politics.

> Other countries are able to execute proper fiscal policy without complex central banking paradigms or measures. Which countries?

When you really think about it deeply, better production should depress prices because of econ 101. However, the FED induced inflation in assets has made everything out of control.…

What a great analogy! I think this is a great analogy to bridge the gap between individualistic vs systematic thinkers about US education and healthcare

yup

I don't think the problem is lack of loans. The problem is the price of assets. This is a structural problem (this used to be something we used to tell developing countries and her…

This is good. I kind of buy into this theory. About the 100-300 year cycle, that stands as well. History is littered with changing reserve currencies.

> wat.... ? 1. you rent a car, and on the Term of Service you declare you are not going to use it for anything illegal . 2. Go rob a bank with it. 3. The rental car company is liab…

No. This is like blaming hammer-as-a-service company for hammer murders. If you're leasing out equipment, you better have reasonable tracking/prevention mechanisms of your equipmen…

What a load of nonsense! The planet needs lesser people. If economics is the problem, fix the damn econs, not the planet. I'm not naive. I understand that the young will have to pr…

I've said this in the past but I'm going to reiterate at the expense of much downvotes again. America is the third world country of all developed countries. For individuals like yo…

Then compare it with major US metros only and not entire US. The multiplier again becomes 18x

That is accurate

I literally used the multiplier here: https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p... As shocking as it sounds, PPP multiple is really 18x

What's incredible is that once you factor in PPP, this is equivalent to $200B in local purchasing power. Imagine how much new economic activity that is for a country whose GDP is o…

Yup. I don't think most people today realize what a one-time event American wealth was after world war 2. After WW2, the rest of the developed world was destroyed and the under-dev…